1. محمدٌ خيرُ بني غالبِ

    وبعدَه ابن أبي طالبِ

    Muhammad is the best of the sons of Ghalib,

    and after him comes the son of Abu Talib.

  2. هذا نبيٌّ ووصيٌّ لهُ

    ويُعزل العالمُ في جانبِ

    This one is a prophet, and the other his legatee,

    yet the learned one is set aside.

  3. حدّثه في مجلسِ واحد

    ألفَ حديثٍ مُعْجبٍ عاجِبِ

    He related to him in a single sitting

    a thousand marvelous, wondrous sayings.

  4. كلُّ حديثٍ من أحاديثه

    يفتحُ ألفاً عِدّة الحاسبِ

    Each saying among his sayings

    opens a thousand, by the reckoner’s count.

  5. فتلك وفَّتْ ألفَ ألفٍ له

    فيها جِماعُ المُحكَمِ الصَّائِبِ

    Thus those made up a full thousand thousand for him;

    in them lies the sum of all that is sound and right.